Painter of Lombardy, c. 1489 - 1534

	"Over the gates of the same city Correggio painted a Madonna and Child; and it is astonishing to see the lovely colouring of this fresco which has won him the most enthusiastic praise, even from passing strangers who have seen nothing else of his." I-280 Madonna and Child
	"In Sant'Antonio in Parma he painted a panel picture showing the Madonna and St Mary Magdalen, with a boy nearby in the guise of a little angel who is holding a book in his hand...this work also contains a St Jerome..." I-280 Madonna and Child with SS Mary Magdalen and Jerome
	"Correggio also executed various pictures and paintings for many local rulers in Lombardy; among these were two that he did in Mantua for Duke Federigo II. One showed the nude figure of Leda and the other was a Venus." I-280 Vasari's description contains elements of the Leda, the Danae and the Io
	"One of the pictures contained a marvellous landscape..." I-280 The painting's explicit sexuality so incensed the pious zeal of Louis, son of the Regent at Paris, that he attacked it with a knife and cut off Leda's head. The present head therefore is not Correggio's but a restoration by Schlesingen. Leda and the Swan
	"There were also several Cupids who were making trial of their arrows, some of gold and some of lead, on a stone." I-280 Eros helps Danae capture all the seed in the rumpled sheet, while the Cupids engrave a stone with their arrows Danae
	"The grace of the Venus was enhanced by the clear and limpid stream which flowed over some stones and bathed her feet, without concealing from the onlooker all their white and delicate beauty." I-280 Jupiter embraces Io
	"In Modena he painted a panel picture of Our Lady..." I-280 "...the great picture, a divine work, in which is the Madonna, with the Child in her arms marrying St Catherine, a Sebastian and other figures, with an air of such beauty in their heads that they appear as if made in Paradise." Garofalo II-452 The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, with St Sebastian
	"In Bologna there is a painting by Correggio showing Christ appearing in the garden to Mary Magdalen.." I-281 Noli me Tangere
	"There is a panel painting in Reggio of the Nativity, in which the splendour radiating from the figure of Christ throws light all around on the shepherds and on those who are contemplating him." I-281 Nativity (Night)
	"The same city possesses the most rare and beauiful of all Correggio's works; it is a small picture, about a foot square, with several little figures, showing Christ in the Garden, and it is intended to create the effect of night. The angel is seen appearing to Christ and illuminating him with the splendour of his radiance..." I-281 Agony in the Garden
	"Girolamo [copied] the altarpiece of St Peter Martyr, which Correggio had painted for a Company of secular priests [in Modena], who hold it in very great price...there being in it an Infant Christ in the lap of his mother, who appears as if breathing, and a most beautiful St Peter Martyr;" Garofalo II-452 St Peter Martyr altarpiece